Horace park



(No Model.)

H. PARK.

000mm MECHANISM FOR BREAKDOWN GUNS.

Patented Jan. '8, 1895.

HORACE PAR/f UNITED STATES HORACE PARK, or coL MBus, onto,

PATENT OFFICE.

A SSIGNOR TO HENRY S. IIALLVVOOD,

OF SAME PLACE.

COOKING MECHANISM FOR BREAKDOWN GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters .Patent No. 532,090, dated January 8, 18-95.

' Application filed September 10, 1894. Serial N 622,649- (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE PARK, a citizen of the United States-residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Ima the cooking bar thrown out of the way of the hammer; Fig. 4, a transverse sectional view through the barrels; and Fig. 5, a perspective view of the cocking bar.

A indicates the main frame of the gun; B, thei barrels; C, the hammers, and D the foreen Secured to the under side of the barrels is a lug or projection a, which, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, is slotted lengthwise and vertically to receive the cooking bar E. This cocking bar isprovided with a cylindrical body portion I), which terminates in a rod or stem 0, and is further provided with a socket d above and in .line with the body portion. At its rear end the bar has a depending portion 9 which is provided with lateral arms f f, the upper surfaces of which are fashioned into the inclined plain face g and the curved or rounded face h, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 5.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the hammers C are provided with a rigid cocking arm 70, which is so curved that its extreme front endonly bears upon the inclined surface 9 of the laterally projecting arm f of the cooking bar, thereby securing during the entire movement of cooking, the full leverage of the cooking I arm.

the end wall of the socket d, Fig. 1, and at the opposite end against the head of a screw j which passes through the socket into the lug a, asshown in Fig. 1.

Upon reference to Fig. 3 it will be noticed that when the fore-end is removed, the stem 0 of the bar E projects beyond the front end of the ing a, and that the lateral arms of the bar are carried forward by the spring out of the way of the hammer-arms k; the bottom of the lug a being cut away as at Z, Figs. 1, 2 and 3, topermit of such movement of the bar E. WVhen, however, the fore-end D is applied, it bears against the front end of stem 0, and pushes the bar E rearwardly, so that the lateral arms f f of the bar shall be in position to engage the hammer arms is when the barrels are tipped, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

If now, the barrels be tipped, as in Fig. 2, the arms of the bar E will engage the arms k of the hammers and tip or rock the latter upon their pivots; the curved points of the arms k riding or bearing on the inclines g of the cocking bar. From this construction it follows that in dismounting the gun, the removal of the fore-end permits the barrels to be lifted .clear of the frame without danger of the cocking-bar striking the hammer arms is. So too, the cocking-bar is firmly supported in and by the lug a, and as this bar is of a single piece of metal, I secure the requisite strength and rigidity, without the addition of any-parts to the main frame, and without change in the said frame.

What I claim iss 1. The cocking bar E provided with the cylindrical body (1 and projecting stem 0, mounted loosely in a correspondingly shaped hole in the lug a, and having at its rear end a depending portion e carrying at its lower end a lateral projection f at each side, for engaging with the two cocking arms 70, substantially as shown and described. I

2. The cooking bar E provided at its front with the projecting stem 0, and on its rear upper portion with a projection having a longitudinal socket or hole d formed therein for the reception of a spring 11 and screw j whereby it is held in .its seat in the lug, and moved forward to disengage from the cocking arms leverage is kept the same throughout the enupon the removal of the fore end, as herein tir'e movement in cooking the hammers, as set described. forth.

3. The combination in a break-down gun, In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand 5 of a cooking bar providedf with projections g in the presence of two witnesses. having a plain or flat sur ace, and a cooking 7 arm or lever is having its bearing end curved HORAQE PARK and terminating in a point arranged to bear Witnesses: on said plain surface, whereby the frictional C. M. VOORHEES, IO surfaces are reduced to the minimum, and the O. C. SHEPHERD. 

